Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:47 pm

yesterday was a good dumpster day.

a penny, quarter and 5$BILL.
PLUS another penny on the ground.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Thu Apr 06, 2017 9:55 am

one penny for my dumpster diving pile
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby hobo finds » Sat Apr 08, 2017 10:19 pm

Thursday wife had a Dental Hygiene Conference in Downtown Phoenix 8 am to 5 pm. I was wandering the streets for the day found a dime in a graffiti covered alley :lol: I hate Phoenix traffic!
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby smackvay » Sun Apr 09, 2017 9:04 am

Took the seat out of my 72 c10 to install a fuel gauge sender unit
Over $1 in old change nothing pre 64 but it all was 75 and older
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby TwoAndAHalfCents » Sun Apr 09, 2017 12:43 pm

Went to the Pick-A-Part junk yard to get a replacement door handle for my son's 95 Chevy pickup. Found two dimes and eight pennies in the junk vehicle I pulled the part from.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:05 pm

lol i refused to go to phoenix this weekend as i cant drive in their traffic either. good thing,
got 8 bags of cans at one site, metal and xmas lights at another. people pulling up and giving me stuiff at the city recycling . someone moved an threw away ''junk'' .
in which was a 2$ loonie, $5 mex and something 1858 ''onward to concord'' . looks kind of like a massatushits medal.

a dollar in one bag of cans

penny in one dumpster ,

dime in a p[arking lot
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:27 am

yesterday was a dime at the pay window of my recycling place.
a quarter in the am. as i went through my bottle caps from the last few days.... i use a magnet to pick up the caps and transfer them to large chlorine buckets.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby JadeDragon » Wed Apr 19, 2017 3:16 pm

My mothers childhood piggy bank she found while sorting out her house in retirement. It was locked. Oddly all dimes, mostly silver, but a few frm the 1980s.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:28 pm

another dumpster quarter
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:27 pm

today parking lot nickel and 3c
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:42 pm

parking lot penny
another lot penny
dumpster penny.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Rosco » Fri Apr 28, 2017 5:32 pm

two Parking lot cents clad
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby CrazyTom » Sat Apr 29, 2017 4:30 pm

Shopping with Mrs. CrazyTom today got a silver dime in the Coin Star reject tray. Not my first time with this
little trick!
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Mon May 01, 2017 11:27 am

only entered one dumpster yesterday, got 2 pennies, a dime and 2 quarters
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Thu May 04, 2017 7:31 pm

dtoday i got a quarter out of my own truck bed
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby JadeDragon » Fri May 05, 2017 11:57 am

I've never search dumpsters for coins. Do people really throw coins in dumpsters? How do you find the coins and would they not work themselves to the bottom?
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Fri May 05, 2017 7:45 pm

xlol i am a bottom feeder. here at the florist shop we have a leaseee with a ''game'' shop. i get change in their garbage bags as i ''reclaim'' the cans and plastic.
they even have recycle bins but refuse to ''bother'' the kids . so i get a passle of garbage too.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby henrysmedford » Sun May 07, 2017 10:40 am

My son Franklin found a counterfeit $10 on the ground at a market were he works. Any one know what the Chinese writing is.

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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby hobo finds » Sun May 07, 2017 1:22 pm

henrysmedford wrote:My son Franklin found a counterfeit $10 on the ground at a market were he works. Any one know what the Chinese writing is.

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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Recyclersteve » Tue May 09, 2017 10:34 pm

JadeDragon wrote:I've never search dumpsters for coins. Do people really throw coins in dumpsters? How do you find the coins and would they not work themselves to the bottom?


I won't say the name of the bank, but a small local bank which has a coin counter told me that the contents of the junk coin cup in the machine go into their trash dumpster. I asked if I could have them instead of them going to waste and they said "no" as that is their policy.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Thu May 11, 2017 8:33 am

another penny found in a dunmpster.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Tue May 16, 2017 5:52 pm

yeah a dime from a dumpster.

today a penny , and one from a parking lot
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby JadeDragon » Wed May 17, 2017 1:34 am

hobo finds wrote:
henrysmedford wrote:My son Franklin found a counterfeit $10 on the ground at a market were he works. Any one know what the Chinese writing is.

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In Nebraska they can't even deturmine if the lettering is chinese, japanese or some kind of oriental writing according to the news. In BC we have people to check with.

Update here is what I learned:
"I just looked up, it says the bill only for specified organizations and it's for 练功 witch is I believed that for Falun, because Chinese government forbidden the organization in china mainland , so they found the other way to get new members , witch is the only way for them. That's what I've heard from my parents."
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby AdamsSamoa » Wed May 17, 2017 9:18 am

one half of one dollar in my front yard. I sent it to the treasury. cost a 49 cent stamp.... guess I will be up 51 cents.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Sun May 28, 2017 12:05 pm

dime at the city recycling center parking lot.
penny in dumpster
penny in a supermarket parking lot
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